Re: removing content from git history

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 10, 2007, 14:41 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710101535560.4174@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <18187.60305.613904.547916@lisa.zopyra.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

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> Our company has content in our central git repository that we need to 
> remove per a contractual obligation.  I believe the content in question 
> is limited to one sub-directory, that has existed since (or near to) the 
> beginning of the repo, if that matters.  We obviously would just like to 
> issue a "git nuke" operation and be done with it, if that is available.  
> Barring that, we could probably follow reasonably simple steps to purge 
> the content and rebuild the repo.
> 
> So, what options do we have at present?

git filter-branch. I suggest using the index filter. There is even a nice example in the man page of git filter-branch.

Which reminds me that I have some TODOs left in filter-branch...

Ciao, Dscho